The Makings Of A Strong Low Pressure

For the first time in a long time, I can say that the weather this week looks active. We haven’t seen very active weather across this portion of the world, and it has been killing me. However, this week, we are likely to see a very strong, rapidly intensifying low pressure system form, and impact the […]

Hurricane Patricia Fine Display of Dines Compensation

There are many laws and theories that govern synoptic and mesoscale meteorology. However, one of my favorites has always been Dines Compensation. Essentially, as air converges at the surface, it is forced upward, where it is eventually diverged aloft. This is because very little air escapes through the tropopause into the stratosphere, and the height […]